Yemen’s ‘New VP’ Urges Army Factions to Fight Houthis, Back Saudis

Yemen’s “newly appointed Vice President” Khalid Bahah, who was appointed to the position by exiled former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, seems to be taking the lead in public relations for the Saudi-backed former regime.

In comments today, Bahah said he believed an outright Saudi invasion could be avoided, but suggested that this would require the various Yemeni military factions who have backed the Shi’ite Houthis to switch sides and back the Saudis.

There’ve been a handful of reports of some of the Yemeni forces who were once loyal to previous dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh defecting to the Hadi remnant forces, but these appear to be only small amounts so far.

At any rate, it’s unclear if the Yemeni military can be decisive for anyone in this conflict. Yemeni forces were unable to keep the Houthis out of the capital, and have been routed by tribal factions time and again over the past few years.

Author: Jason Ditz

Yeah, Be traitors to your country and back a barbarian thug regime to the north who will become your masters. That would be like Benedict Arnold calling for Washington and others to switch sides and fight for Britain when they have killed many or your people.

John Ellis

Military force — Straight from Satan out of hell

Right on good people of Yemen, for never should you allow a military to rule over you. And if you have no foreign enemies, then never should you have a military as surely it will be controlled by the rich and used as deadly force to enslave you.

didi

When the House of Saud began the bombing in Yemen I predicted that it would "do a Gaza" on Yemen and that this poor country would look like Germany in 1945 soon. My prediction was based on the ferocity of the Saudi's when they fought for the control of "Mecca and Medina" after WW1. Without any pity when you dared to be in their way.

Joe Hill

Was the Yemeni army "trained" by Uncle Sam? That would guarantee its ineffectiveness, as amply demonstrated repeatedly in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The Iraq army is so useless, I have to wonder, is this because Uncle Sam's trainers are completely incompetent, or is it by design?